Today the new ASUS NVIDIA MATRIX GTX580 P/2DIS/1536MD5 Platinum arrived on my door step, so here is the first impression and the unboxing!
Delivered in an nice flip-open box
The DirectCU II cooling system – 600% greater air flow, 20% cooler operation - is the first eye catcher
Inside the box are two Y-splitter power cables, SLI bridge, VGA converter, manual, driver DVD and ROG case badge
And again it uses three slots of your system case
And the new Safe Mode button, this card has two BIOS versions. One to tweak, tune, and mess up and another one you can access by the safe mode button to restore defaults in case you pushed the card to far and it gets blocked
Overclock zone to set hardware voltages by hand and to raise the fan speeds button, here you can also find the connectors for a multi-meter
Color display of the current GPU load
A total of six slots are needed for an SLI configuration, and 4x 8-pin power connector for a strong power flow
So now lets secure these things inside the case, put the temperature sensors back on, like shown before and connect the four power cables.
Locked and loaded
Specs:
Type: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
Memory: 1536 MB GDDR5 4008 MHz
Memory interface: 384bit
Watt: 244w, 2 x 8-pin
Shader model: 5.0
DirectX: 11
PCIe x16 v2.0
110 x 40 x 268 mm, 3 slots
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Now upcomming a new Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installation for the best stability!
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